Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 79 56
Rank change year-on-year -42 -23 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,312 1,518 3,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 3.67% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.93% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,041 2,789
10th Percentile £51,325 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +12.59% -14.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,482 38,652 75,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.48% 93.43% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,105 22,218 57,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 24 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 1,198 £77,500 +3.33% 505
London +5 660 £87,500 +2.94% 228
Work from Home -30 575 £70,932 -1.47% 343
UK excluding London -112 548 £67,500 -3.57% 333
North of England -40 248 £67,500 -6.24% 124
North West -36 115 £67,500 -3.57% 71
South East -119 102 £75,000 +11.11% 87
Yorkshire -38 98 £70,000 -2.77% 31
South West -59 63 £65,000 -5.14% 35
Midlands -56 61 £67,500 +3.85% 37
East of England -23 38 £65,000 +13.04% 23
North East -1 35 £65,000 +23.81% 27
West Midlands -17 34 £70,000 - 20
Scotland -81 28 £62,500 -16.67% 17
East Midlands -56 26 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Wales -17 7 £55,200 +10.40% 15
Northern Ireland -37 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.52%) Apache
3 19 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 16 (1.22%) Confluence
5 14 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.99%) JBoss
7 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.76%) CMS
8 10 (0.76%) IIS
9 6 (0.46%) Appian
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) Liferay
12 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.84%) Maya
3 10 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (0.53%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.076%) Actimize
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.076%) Quorum
7 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.076%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 722 (55.03%) AWS
2 584 (44.51%) Azure
3 295 (22.48%) GCP
4 230 (17.53%) Serverless
5 171 (13.03%) SaaS
6 117 (8.92%) GitHub
7 109 (8.31%) Amazon S3
8 102 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
11 70 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (3.43%) OpenShift
18 43 (3.28%) PaaS
19 38 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
20 33 (2.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.20%) Broadband
2 11 (0.84%) HTTP
3 8 (0.61%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) DHCP
6 5 (0.38%) DNS
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.076%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.02%) NoSQL
2 172 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 118 (8.99%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.64%) MySQL
6 63 (4.80%) DynamoDB
6 63 (4.80%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (2.97%) Redis
9 30 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (2.29%) BigQuery
10 29 (2.21%) Big Data
11 28 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.68%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.30%) Power BI
14 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.99%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.91%) DB2
16 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (12.96%) Git
2 119 (9.07%) Jenkins
3 82 (6.25%) GitLab
4 54 (4.12%) TeamCity
5 44 (3.35%) JIRA
6 38 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 38 (2.90%) JUnit
7 32 (2.44%) Selenium
8 30 (2.29%) Cypress.io
9 29 (2.21%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.60%) Mockito
11 19 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.45%) Maven
12 12 (0.91%) JMeter
13 11 (0.84%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.84%) Vite
14 10 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
14 10 (0.76%) Postman
15 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 396 (30.18%) Finance
2 371 (28.28%) Social Skills
3 162 (12.35%) Banking
4 111 (8.46%) Law
5 101 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 76 (5.79%) Retail
8 68 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.42%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.96%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.35%) Back Office
12 25 (1.91%) Games
13 21 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.52%) Billing
14 20 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.30%) Advertising
15 17 (1.30%) Legal
16 14 (1.07%) Marketing
17 12 (0.91%) Front Office
18 11 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 449 (34.22%) Developer
2 351 (26.75%) Senior
3 260 (19.82%) Software Engineer
4 208 (15.85%) Architect
5 165 (12.58%) Lead
6 120 (9.15%) Senior Developer
7 118 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 109 (8.31%) Java Developer
9 97 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 82 (6.25%) Java Engineer
12 73 (5.56%) .NET Developer
13 60 (4.57%) Software Developer
14 51 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
16 46 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 41 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 39 (2.97%) Senior Java Developer
20 37 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (23.09%) .NET
2 294 (22.41%) React
3 262 (19.97%) RESTful
4 220 (16.77%) Spring
5 212 (16.16%) REST
6 193 (14.71%) Spring Boot
7 191 (14.56%) Node.js
8 175 (13.34%) Kafka
9 111 (8.46%) AngularJS
10 100 (7.62%) .NET Core
11 82 (6.25%) gRPC
12 74 (5.64%) HTML
13 70 (5.34%) .NET Framework
14 63 (4.80%) CSS
15 61 (4.65%) ASP.NET
15 61 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (4.12%) Middleware
17 53 (4.04%) Django
18 47 (3.58%) Hibernate
19 46 (3.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 380 (28.96%) Cloud Native
2 217 (16.54%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (8.38%) Product Ownership
4 107 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
6 46 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.90%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.74%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 34 (2.59%) Algorithms
9 34 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.98%) Blockchain
11 24 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.30%) IoT
16 15 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.50%) Linux
2 23 (1.75%) Windows
3 16 (1.22%) Android
4 7 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.076%) Fedora
8 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (48.25%) CI/CD
2 542 (41.31%) Agile
3 514 (39.18%) DevOps
4 499 (38.03%) Software Engineering
5 374 (28.51%) Containerisation
6 312 (23.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 288 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (20.81%) Mentoring
9 258 (19.66%) Event-Driven
10 247 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 244 (18.60%) Test Automation
12 239 (18.22%) AI
13 209 (15.93%) Computer Science
14 182 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 159 (12.12%) Scrum
16 156 (11.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 154 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
18 148 (11.28%) Clean Code
18 148 (11.28%) TDD
19 147 (11.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 434 (33.08%) Java
2 351 (26.75%) Python
3 277 (21.11%) SQL
4 259 (19.74%) JavaScript
5 252 (19.21%) C#
6 210 (16.01%) TypeScript
7 112 (8.54%) Go
8 42 (3.20%) Scala
9 40 (3.05%) PHP
10 34 (2.59%) Bash
10 34 (2.59%) C++
11 31 (2.36%) C
12 27 (2.06%) Ruby
13 22 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.68%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 15 (1.14%) PowerShell
15 15 (1.14%) Rust
16 8 (0.61%) Bicep
17 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 211 (16.08%) Degree
2 135 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 106 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 72 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 61 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 46 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 40 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.14%) CISSP
13 13 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.76%) CISM
15 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.61%) PMP
16 6 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.79%) QA
2 31 (2.36%) GDPR
3 29 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 26 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.99%) NIST
6 13 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.76%) NCSC
8 6 (0.46%) EMIR
8 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 5 (0.38%) IFRS
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) SEPA
10 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 407 (31.02%) Docker
2 14 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 406 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 226 (17.23%) Terraform
3 87 (6.63%) Grafana
4 68 (5.18%) Ansible
5 37 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.68%) Kibana
7 14 (1.07%) Argo
8 10 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 131 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.27%) Google
3 52 (3.96%) Oracle
4 36 (2.74%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.37%) SAP
6 17 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.07%) Dynatrace
9 13 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (0.91%) Software AG
10 12 (0.91%) Splunk
11 11 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.76%) Cisco
12 10 (0.76%) Databricks
12 10 (0.76%) IBM
12 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.61%) Guidewire